In this paper, we examine a real-world case related to the consumer product supply chain to analyze the value of supply chain coordination under the condition of moral hazard. Because of the characteristics of a buyback contract scheme employed in the supply chain, the supplier company's sales department encourages retailers to order more inventory to meet their sales target, whereas retailers ...

Post-M&A IT integration capability is a different construct compared to IT integration capability in the supply chain presented in prior literature (e.g., Rai et al. 2006; Rai and Tang 2010; Ward and Zhou 2006). IT integration capability in the supply chain refers to the firm’s ability to integrate systems, data, and information with the suppliers’ (customers’) systems, data, and information (R...

Innovation is the key to sustainable performance in the current competitive market. Supply chains being network of firms entangled in exchange relationships; innovation in supply chains cannot be fully achieved without effective supply chain relationships. Hence the current study explores empirically the influence of dominant relational attributes viz. trust, commitment, communication, cooperat...

It is often proposed that operations planning in supply chains can be organized in terms of a hierarchical planning system. However, the hierarchical approach assumes a single, centralized planning task for synchronizing operations across the supply chain. As central coordination can usually be realized only for isolated parts of an overall supply chain, the question arises whether there are al...